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They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? (lemmy.zip)
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Feel free to replace "friends" with "anyone you know in real life" or even online groups you trust or are close with.

"They":

WOM marketing is highly effective as 88% of consumers trust friend recommendations over traditional media.

and my own personal experience; most games I have bought in the past 10 years have been off of recommendations from r/gamingsuggestions before Reddit went to crap and Lemmy came into existence; and even moreso when it is a personal friend recommending things to me.

Mods, feel free to nuke if this feels too close to advertising or better-suited for !videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip (my own community); I mean it more as a discussion piece but I don't run the place.

EDIT: The "not" in the title is optional; I'm asking about both successful and failed recommendations.

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Weird to say that of Rdr2 (i think you meant 2) because as the main, like, its fairly big arc that the whole game takes. I can get on board with that being an issue in Witcher3, but like, idk, to some extent is this because as an open world game they cant "force" you to play in a linear evolution?

[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago

I never played RDR2 because I played 1 and GTA 4 and I just don’t like how Rockstar games play.

[-] danciestlobster@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Admittedly I only did the tutorial area and first town after before I lost interest. I did definitely have it pitched to me as a fully open world game which it really isn't as I would define it. I have been told since that Arthur has a good arc and growth potential but....I guess it just took too long to get to that. It seemed to rely a bit on past game context too that I didn't have

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

It is a big and slow arc, and the game is.. just.. massive. Its a long game.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Same. I reached the first town with no idea what to do, cumbersome controls, and a lot of apathy by this point.

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